So…the first post in a long while, and it’s about Star Trek. It’s taken me a few days to process this, so here goes.

I am a lifelong Star Trek fan, ever since I was little, and in my formative years, I watched a LOT of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It captivated my young mind, and showed me a hopeful future where a society could have advanced technology, and yet still also have the strong ethical and pluralistic values with which to use it. It was a setting where often the dilemma wasn’t some monster or alien of the week or some dazzling space battle, but a moral, scientific or philosophical quandery for which there was no easy answer. It opened the doors to a lifelong love of science fiction in general. I literally have a tattoo of the Enterprise on my right arm, that’s how big of an impact the show had on me.

And at the center of the show was Jean-Luc Picard.